It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.

I am a great woman.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.